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Those Year 2000 disaster preparedness trucks were originally there for a different reason

Originally for long-haul testing in the power-unstable Pacific Northwest.

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What little kids think of lifeguards

Lots of yelling.

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Psychic debugging: Why does opening a command prompt always print a weird error message?

Check your AutoRun.

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The 2017/2018 Seattle Symphony subscription season at a glance

The pocket reference guide for 2017/2018.

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Another more efficient solution to the problem of a long-running task running on the thread pool persistent thread

The thread-agnostic change notification.

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Follow-up: The bus that straddles traffic

Sitting motionless over half a road.

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A more efficient solution to the problem of a long-running task running on the thread pool persistent thread

Break it up a little more.

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How do I fix the problem of a long-running task running on the thread pool persistent thread?

Hey, you, get off of my thread.

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Man, this housing downturn is hitting everyone, follow-up

Down we go.

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Why did my thread pool stop processing work once it hit a long-running work item?

Because you ran the work item on the persistent thread.

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